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Ask HN: Would you accept a job in Crypto?

by chespinoza on 11/19/21, 6:30 PM with 6 comments

I use to check new jobs every week to know how requirements and salaries are changing, this year I've noticed a quite dramatic surge in Cryto related jobs with really good salaries, three years ago I interviewed for three crypto related companies and none of them survived, they just got some investment and disappeared. Since then and after the massive surge of crypto miners mafias last year I ended up hating the lack of transparency, environmental ethics and their dirty marketing therefore I wouldn't accept a job on that field. Would you accept a job in Crypto? I wonder if I'm missing something?

  • by antasvara on 11/19/21, 6:38 PM

    I think (as with any job) people have different tolerance levels for environmental issues, company ethics, etc.

    Personally I'd consider working for a crypto company depending on the salary, job responsibilities, and title. I don't necessarily agree with most crypto companies with respect to environmental impacts or ethics. However, if the job were to give me valuable tech experience and had a salary that was significantly higher than other offers, that may outweigh the previously mentioned concerns.

    I suspect that crypto companies like the ones you've mentioned may soon have to overpay for qualified developers if the developer community as a whole shares similar sentiments to you. Depending on the amount of overpay, I have to imagine many new developers will find the offers appealing, especially as a stepping stone to other positions.

  • by sharemywin on 11/19/21, 6:52 PM

    I'm for anything where there's competition in transaction(middleman) fees. So, I think as the market for "crypto" takes off, I can see this space being net positive.

    Solana fees are $0.00025 per transaction. And with Defi you can jump networks pretty easy. I think polygon network has low fees too.

    As for the argument about oracle's(ignore the man behind the curtain), I think competition will will solve that too.

    The problem long term is probably money laundering and other illegal activities.

    or it could devolve into the singularity or some dystopian techno-feudalism.

    so, I would take a job but I'd probably rather work on some kind of DAO in my spare time.

  • by jmkr on 11/19/21, 6:48 PM

    Possibly. It's not a space I want to be, but there's a lot of tempting aspects. New niche languages (Haskell, Rust, etc), language writing and design. So I'm sure some of the positions are fun.

  • by slater on 11/19/21, 6:31 PM

    No.

  • by BryonTaylor on 11/19/21, 6:32 PM

    Yes